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Nature Medicine 13, 408 - 409 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm0407-408

Immune cells may fend off Alzheimer disease

Markus Britschgi1 & Tony Wyss-Coray1,2

  1. Markus Britschgi and Tony Wyss-Coray are in the Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
  2. Tony Wyss-Coray is also at the Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA. e-mail: twc@stanford.edu


Chemokines in the brain recruit immune cells from the blood or from within the brain. Disrupting this line of communication exacerbates disease in mouse models of Alzheimer disease (pages 432–438).

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